"Grand Old Confidants"

As Berlin's new plenipotent "Medical Counselor," Nazi Dr. Wilhelm Klein stepped up one day last week to open the new Academy for Advanced Medical Study. He was expected to praise Germany's medical specialists, clinics and research laboratories, her mighty contribu tions to modern medical science. What the expectant doctors heard instead made their jaws drop.

"We will entrust," said Dr. Klein, "the job of keeping the German people physically fit, not to the so-called modern specialist, but to the old-fashioned family doctor. Let the young medical students take him for their model. The grand old general physician is what I have in mind as an ideal. A family confidant, the general doctor can size up a person as a whole. He has profound wisdom and knowledge of character, born of experience. . . . Specialists are useful occasionally. . . .

"Furthermore, the tablet-craving of the nation must be done away with. Let us turn from chemical compounds and nostrums to the herbs which nature has so abundantly provided."

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